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5-across – Beam over window for Spooner? : LENTIL

6-across – North American bird destroying its eggs, a number being squashed : CANUCK

9-across – Commercial is about to grab the nation : ADSUKI

10-across – Flow of water not choppy when darkness falls? : EVENTIDE

11-across – A short distance to the west : LIMA

12-across – A dreadful torment has this person spinning before death : ANTEMORTEM

13-across – Accountant and bishop meet outside front of abbey : BEANCOUNTER

18-across – Belly upset in bumpy tours made by vehicle : TROLLEYBUS

21-across – Thereupon chatter but not quietly : SOYA

22-across – Playing partners, frightful bimbos showing social discrimination : SNOBBISM

23-across – Game needing number but one missing, right? : RUNNER

24-across – Car and train about to be scrapped : HEARSE

25-across – Chamber in which worker has drink : ANTRUM

1-down – Fashionable aspect conceals fellow acting like a beast : INHUMANE

2-down – Old Roman building from which British Academy’s removed quartz : SILICA

3-down – Chaps on Thames maybe having a fixed period in overcrowded city : WATERMEN

4-down – Second grade, say : BUTTER

5-down – Boy getting left — tot, that is : LADDIE

7-down – Pull the wool over the old French commander’s eyes? : KIDNEY

8-down – Anti-personnel device — one burnt furiously, restricting revolutionary crowd : NEUTRONBOMB

14-down – Home flooded by one river rising is most dis­advantaged : NEEDIEST

15-down – Queen on island set up place for prince : ELSINORE

16-down – Female to pull wife away : FRENCH

17-down – School story — see them in the auditorium? : LYCEUM

19-down – Place for scientific working party : LABLAB

20-down – Keeping nothing for throwing away : STRING

1-across – Illustrate key opening prison after revolution with touch of euphoria : DESCRIBE

5-across – Destroy vessel, carve into it : CHEWUP

9-across – Brief title recalled in trade : BARRISTER

11-across – Reported feline relationships : LINKS

12-across – Choice of camels, husband exchanged for fifty — how sweet? : ONELUMPORTWO

15-across – I see you on old Hawaiian island : OAHU

16-across – Green no Scrooge, a saver : ECONOMISER

18-across – Certain fact : PARTICULAR

19-across – Youth getting through cigarette ends : TEEN

21-across – Celebs so unrecognisable in previously outmoded state : OBSOLESCENCE

24-across – Idiot, a blend of parents? : DUMMY

25-across – Fish me, dorsal fin at the back, swimming : REDSALMON

26-across – Eliminate gold counters, as sovereigns : ROYALS

27-across – A blast from the past, one pulled by puller, we hear? : KRAKATOA

1-down – Obligation to lift bottom onto end of seat : DEBT

2-down – Sound of the seaside? Yes! : SURE

3-down – Singer breaking rules : REIGNS

4-down – Large ship, huge fighter transporting stock, heading for the bottom : BATTLECRUISER

6-down – Introduction to a Persian poet not right — it’s cheese : HALLOUMI

7-down – Someone enjoying alcohol, one not saving water in Newcastle, says Spooner? : WINETASTER

8-down – Good cord that binds on engine component : PISTONRING

10-down – Almost everything in book and novel runs an old dated system? : ROMANCALENDAR

13-down – Held by communists after uprising, veteran prisoner getting ground cleaner : SOAPPOWDER

14-down – Told you so! Cameron always PM! : THERESAMAY

17-down – Daily Mail ultimately so shabby, not to be trusted? : DISLOYAL

20-down – Two groups without leadership getting flak : ACKACK

22-down – Filth seems moderate under Tories for starters : SMUT

23-down – Girl who may turn up? : ANNA

9-across – He conducted opera in backward province : TOSCANINI

10-across – Old blowers regularly play these : OBOES

11-across – Contribution from Vanessa-Mae’s troubling conductor : MAESTRO

12-across – French composer considers cutting speed : DELIBES

13-across – Left Gershwin tackling British scales : LIBRA

14-across – Member of top brass better with French first lady : TRUMPETER

16-across – I prefer tonight’s controversial ballet : THERITEOFSPRING

19-across – Comedienne Phyllis beset first person with retorts : DISTILLER

21-across – Instrumentalist picks this big name to tour India : SITAR

22-across – Crew occasionally hush popular violinist : MENUHIN

23-across – Composer’s place full of filthy lucre : PURCELL

24-across – Norma maybe rejects section of a report : OPERA

25-across – Briefly try old doctor, one with special instruments : TROMBONES

1-down – Pretended to keep time, given a prod : STIMULATED

2-down – Meet regular members of sestet during walk : ASSEMBLE

3-down – Ray preserves rare Hindu incantation : MANTRA

4-down – Queen performed overture to opera : DIDO

5-down – 10 perhaps more certain to come across fellow boarder : WINDSURFER

6-down – Sweet old man follows the money, as stated : LOLLIPOP

7-down – Maiden interrupts county cricketer’s fight : COMBAT

8-down – River goddess lives around South Island : ISIS

14-down – Suite probed by mariners and pioneers : THEPLANETS

15-down – Elgar fiddled with dress, whatever the conditions : REGARDLESS

17-down – Girl meets hunk, ditching second guy from Cork? : IRISHMAN

18-down – Mean to welcome ambassador eventually : INTHEEND

20-down – Operas in German too much for vocalist : SINGER

21-down – Writer’s copy found in Home Counties : SCRIBE

22-down – Low note creates atmosphere : MOOD

23-down – Play back-to-front concert : PROM

1-across – Dance exercise starting on time … : PROMPT

4-across – … ending in breaking plate : FINISH

9-across – Citizen poking about there at show house : NATIONALTHEATRE

10-across – A number in school in bad odour … : STENCH

11-across – … getting through exam, almost grumpy about it : SURVIVAL

12-across – House an actor may have in his pocket : PROPERTY

14-across – Country-style nickname Alice could give either twin? : TWEEDY

15-across – Snooty chap astride flanks of horse, lining up for this? : THEOFF

18-across – Why film star may get fat? : DIETRICH

21-across – Mammal long suffering in agony : PANGOLIN

22-across – If B was Brown and C was Cameron … oh dear! : DISMAY

24-across – Venue that may offer pleasure? O, hooray! : ROYALOPERAHOUSE

25-across – Bouncer’s horse in dead heat, right? : TIGGER

26-across – Teacher with degree pulled back out of the rubble : DEBRIS

1-down – Place teacher, not the head, as cover for break : PLASTER

2-down – Two forwards crush one that may be in the soup : ONION

3-down – Cat finally loth to stop longer : PANTHER

5-down – Come in to join her: I take part : INHERIT

6-down – I serve in US army: never would I work for Walt? : IMAGINEER

7-down – Here one may learn from a bible in stiff cover : HARVARD

8-down – Magazine’s good year overcoming financial problems : GLOSSY

13-down – As capital, bad smell about yen, a principle for the Chinese : PYONGYANG

16-down – What a reverse — a big defeat — don’t interrupt! : HEAROUT

17-down – Being nauseating fouls me up : FULSOME

18-down – Animal in River by Turner : DONKEY

19-down – Play and blow for time : ENDGAME

20-down – How one might briefly describe the Princess Royal’s body? : CHASSIS

23-down – Thoroughly search small playing area? Not quite : SCOUR

1-across – Wanting to keep buzzing off, English leaving part of the 12 20 : ANTIBES

5-across – Living in caravan, I’m a tearaway : ANIMATE

10-across – Pay doesn’t start for years and years : AGES

11-across – Retailer taking morning or start of evening off : IRONMONGER

12-across – Island insane, might some say? A holiday destination : FRENCH

13-across – With investment of company, go towards Judas? : TURNCOAT

14-across – One’s spotted fiddle involving Labour leader in Mr Brown : DALMATIAN

16-across – Flexible athlete’s back after a short breather : AGILE

17-across – Goodbye to hello in past narrative : STORY

19-across – Flat carrier, individual pockets for shopping : BETRAYING

23-across – Drink in trailer for cow, perhaps? : RUMINANT

24-across – Struggle to eat animal product for plant eater : VEGGIE

26-across – Characterise type of camera, capturing nothing, say, the wrong way round : PIGEONHOLE

27-across – Line drawn for missile launcher, old hero in Cuba : OCHE

28-across – Last relative tackled by forward : PERSIST

29-across – Matelots close to feckless so 12, one gathered : SAILORS

2-down – Country, one with capital in Abuja : NIGERIA

3-down – Serious issue with stock stolen by popular author : IBSEN

4-down – European PM embracing male nickname : EPITHET

6-down – Now I shall become mean, having croaked, monsieur? : NOMORE

7-down – See 6 : MRNICEGUY

8-down – Something afoot, follow around one that’s sus­picious : TOENAIL

9-down – Safety practice, case of choice blocking device : CONTRACEPTION

15-down – Cruel, no thanks to the 12? : MERCILESS

18-down – Territorials waste bully? : TAURINE

20-down – See 12 : RIVIERA

21-down – One going in lower, not both : NEITHER

22-down – Part of the 12 20 film confined to it, we hear? : CANNES

25-down – Show hostility, having to wax lyrical initially : GROWL